BellyPurpledGerbil

@BellyPurpledGerbil@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm at a loss on what server to buy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m reusing a blade server I managed to snag from a company I worked for in 2008. It’s perfect as a media server for friends and family. It is only recently degrading slightly but hey, it lasted a long time!

  Point is you can use almost anything. Do your homework on compatible parts and make what you can afford

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Neuralink's first in-human brain implant has experienced a problem, company says⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are lots of parasitic bugs in this story, including Elon Musk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the deal with Docker?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I approve of this expanded answer. I may have been too ELI5 in my post

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the deal with Docker?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s virtual machines but faster, more configurable with a considerably larger set of automation, and it consumes less computer resources than a traditional VM. Additionally, in software development it helps solve a problem summarized as “works on my machine.” A lot of traditional server creation and management relied on systems that need to be set up perfectly identical every deployment to prevent dumb defects based on whose machine was used to write it on. With Docker, it’s stupid easy to copy the automated configuration from “my machine” to “your machine.” Now everyone, including the production systems, are running from “my machine.” That’s kind of a big deal, even if it could be done in other ways naturally on Linux operating systems. They don’t have the ease of use or the same shareability.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Is Becoming a Band-Aid over Bad, Broken Tech Industry Design Choices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Complaining about AI in all the wrong ways to complain about AI. AI is definitely a poor substitute for actually well thought out feature implementations. But it has nothing to do with why your iPhone sucks to navigate on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[HN] Jon Stewart's Show on Apple Is Ending⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know what he expected when he accepted to host the show on Apple tv.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where are you? Can you move?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Quite literally you are your brain, trying to account for the entire body and mind as the self simultaneously. But you may catch yourself thinking or saying things like “I can’t wrap my brain around this.” Isn’t that odd? Your brain refers to itself as my brain. Is that a linguistic issue or is your sense of perspective off?

  “Don’t you have a heart?” Why do we imply that our sense of compassion is only located in an organ that just pumps blood? That clearly can’t be the case.

  We know cases where someone gets a brain tumor and suddenly becomes violent or unfeeling. When the brain is damaged either during life or during gestation, we know that we can lose all manner of things: cognition, motor skills, memory, emotions, etc. It’s all the brain.

  What confuses the issue is everything the brain is attached to. What I think all conscious humans do is try to make sense of the mind-body connection. I feel tired, that’s not just my brain feeling tired. I can feel tired in every single part of my body independently or all together. “I” am the brain. If I lose an arm, I don’t lose my sense of self. But losing important functions can damage the self I’ve constructed of myself. If I lose my eyesight I will be a very different person when I’m unable to visually enjoy video games, movies, art, nature.

  All this to say, your self is self constructed. It’s malleable. But make no mistake that the source of where self and consciousness are maintained is the brain.